diff --git a/quarkus/admin/src/main/resources/application.properties b/quarkus/admin/src/main/resources/application.properties
index 0d10451cf8..1828df6e85 100644
--- a/quarkus/admin/src/main/resources/application.properties
+++ b/quarkus/admin/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 # Cf. https://quarkus.io/guides/all-config
 
 quarkus.application.name=Apache Polaris Admin Tool (incubating)
-quarkus.banner.path=/org/apache/polaris/admintool/banner.txt
+quarkus.banner.enabled=false
 
 quarkus.container-image.build=false
 quarkus.container-image.push=false
@@ -50,3 +50,7 @@ quarkus.index-dependency.guava.artifact-id=guava
 quarkus.index-dependency.protobuf.group-id=com.google.protobuf
 quarkus.index-dependency.protobuf.artifact-id=protobuf-java
 quarkus.datasource.devservices.image-name=postgres:17-alpine
+
+# ---- Logging Configuration ----
+# Set root logging level to WARNING to suppress INFO logs
+quarkus.log.level=WARNING
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/quarkus/admin/src/main/resources/org/apache/polaris/admintool/banner.txt b/quarkus/admin/src/main/resources/org/apache/polaris/admintool/banner.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 9e44c61e83..0000000000
--- a/quarkus/admin/src/main/resources/org/apache/polaris/admintool/banner.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-
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- @      @@@  @@@@ @     @ @  @@  @  @@@@    @@@@ @     @ @ @@   @@ @@@@  @@@   @@@@
-
-                     *
-
-
-                                      /////\                                        
-                                   //\\///T\\\                                      
-                                ///\\\////\\\\\\                                    
-                               //\\\\T////\\\\\\\\\                                 
-                          /T\ //\\\\\T///T\\//T\\\\\\                               
-                        //\\\/////T\\////\\/////\\\\\\\  //\\                       
-                     //\\\\\\T///////////////////T\\\\\\\T\\\\\                     
-                  //\\\\/////T\//////////\///////T\\\\\T\\\\\\\\                    
-                 //\\\\\/////\\\T////////////////\\\\\\/\\\\\\\\\                   
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